THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

JANUARY—FEBRUARY, 1974

[MILL EVALUATION PAYS OFF

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The I.W.A. Negotiating Committee consisting of Regional 1st Vice President
Wyman Trineer and Local 1-405 President Wayne Nowlin, assisted by the
Regional Evaluation Department, in last month’s negotiations with Canadian
Cellulose Company Ltd., has improved upon the sawmill job evaluation which
was originally put into effect on July 1, 1972.

The Plan now provides for twenty-one (21) labour grades and the monetary
values between these labour grades are calculated on “FIXED” percentages of
the base rate as per the following examples:

(a) the monetary difference between the base rate and labour grade number two
equals 1 percent of the base rate of $4.45 effective July 1, 1973 or $0.04

(b) the monetary difference between the base rate and labour grade number
eleven equals approximately 16 percent of the base rate effective July 1, 1973
or $0.72 :

(c) the monetary difference between the base rate and labour grade number

twenty-one equals approximately 46% percent of the base rate effective July
1, 1973 or $2.07. ;

When the base rate rises as a result of broad contract negotiations, the monetary
difference between labour grades will rise ‘‘automatically’”’ in line with the
negotiated percentage grade increments.

Following are the negotiated point ranges between labour grades, the negoti-

ated percentage increments between these labour grades and the resulting rates
for each of the twenty-one labour grades:
Increment asa _— Resulting Resulting
Percentage of Increment Rate j
Points Grade Base Rate July 1, 1973 July 1, 1973
0- 60 1 _ -00 $ 4.45
61- 80 2 1.00 04 4.49
81- 100 3 1.14 .05 4.54
101- 135 4 1.28 .06 4.60
136- 175 5 1.42 .06 4.66
176- 220 6 1.56 07 4.73
221- 270 7 1.70 .08 4.81
271- 320 8 1.84 .08 4.89
321- 370 9 1.98 .09 4.98
371- 430 10 2,12 .09 5.07
431- 490 11 2.26 10 5.17
491- 550 12 2.40 - Al 5.28
551- 620 13 2.54 ll 5.39
621- 690 14 2.68 12 5.51
691- 760 15 2.82 13 5.64
761- 830 16 2.96 13 5.77
831- 900 17 3.10 14 5.91
901- 970 18 3.24 14 6.05
971-1040 19 3.38 .15 6.20
1041-1110 20 3.52 16 6.36
1111-1180 21 3.66 — 16 6.52
46.6% $2.07
Wage Curve Difference

Implementation of the above outline plan has resulted in the following rate
revisions retroactive from July 1, 1973:

Total in sawmill and planermill: 72 categories

No revision: 31 categories

Upward revisions: 41 categories (7/ 6c, 5/7c, 4/8c,
5/9ce, 1/10¢e, 1/ lle, 1/ 12¢, 2/18¢c, 1/17¢c,
5/18c, 1/19c, 1/22c, 4/26c, -
1/ 28c, and 2/ 46c)

In order to make it possible to completely understand the full impact of this

evaluation plan we will list:

(a) the labour grade and related rate

(b) the category title

(ce) the total rate revision per category during the life-time of the current

agreement.
Grade 1 — $4.45 Car Loader 7c
Janitor nil Clean-up/ Truck Driver / Bark 9c
Lumber Straightener nil Clean-up/ Utility/SM 15c¢
Crib Attendant nil Truck Driver/Trim Ends 9c
Planer Load Breakdown / 612 5c
Grade 2 — $4.49 Bundle Sidelift Helper 12¢
Hog Belt Attendant 4c Defect Trim Saw Operator 5¢
loor 4c

Clean, SMLawerFloor Grade 584.0
er Helper 4c Planer Load Breakdown / 202 11¢c
aot vaarkcer Spotter-202 4c Transfer Car Operator/ Unloading 18c
Strip Layer 4c Timber Sawyer 16c
Trimmer ter lc Planer Feeder : 1c
Planer Puller-202 4c Sha ee Car ‘aoa Unload. 6c
Plan in Puller-612 4c Tail Sawyer/ Pine Side lic
“ae Tail Sawyer / Fir Side lic

— 4.54

ahead Car] / Loading 6c Grade 6 — $4.73
Greenchain Puller 6c Stacker Operator 12¢
Tie-up 612 & 202 4c DropSorter ‘A’/PineSide . 19¢
Stacker Breakdown Hoist nil Drop Sorter ‘A’ / Fir Side 19¢
os ln eeammml PM 8c Crib Operator / Feeder 15¢
Crane lc Boomboat Helper 12¢
Tallyman 12¢
Grade 4 — $4.60 Bundle Sidelift Operator 14c

10¢c Head Greenchain Man

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APPROXIMATELY 200 MEMBERS of Local 1-405 IWA, employed by the Canadian

Cellulose Company at Castlegar, attended the special meeting held in Castlegar January 20,
to hear the results of the sawmill revisions.

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Grade 14 — $5.51

Greenchain Marker 15c
Hydraulic Barker Operator 4c No.2 Planerman 44c
Grade 16 — $5.77
Grade 7 —_ $4.81 .
No. 2 Planerman
Tallyman/ Flat Car Loading 20c ;
Auto. Trimmerman/PM 22¢ Chargeband ee ee
Inventory Tallyman 10¢ Grade 21 — $6.52
Sawyer / Pine Side 93¢
Grade 8 — $4.89 Sawyer/ Fir Side 93c
Auto Trim’man/ Fir Side/SM 25c oe
Auto Trim’man/ Pine Side/SM 25c ‘Impact Cost Calculation
1. Installation of the plan effective July
1, 1972 resulted in an average in-
Grade 9 — $4.98 crease of 7.7 cents.
ee ey eealor 2. The percentage grade increment
Gang Sac eee or Fir Side a wage curve resulted in an average
Log Cut-off Operator: 29¢ ee of 1.8 cents effective July 1,
3. Negotiated changes to the plan ef-
Grade 10 — $5.07 fective July 1, 1973 resulted in an
Edgerman/ Gang / average increase of 6.1 cents.
Pine or Fir Side 27¢c Total average rate revision during
Edgerman / Headrig/ the lifetime of the present agreement
Pine or Fir Side 27¢c amounts to 15.6 cents for 299 IWA
Forklift Operator / Shipping 46c members employed at Canadian Cellu-
Carrier Driver / Greenchain 46c lose Company Ltd. in Castlegar as a
Shipper’s Assistant, -14ec direct result of the existing sawmill job
No. 3 Set-up Man 27c evaluation plan.
Carrier Driver / Peuer 46c | Conclusion
Tallyman/Chargehan 36¢c Under the present percentage
Local Sales Shipper 22¢ grade increments, an increase of 50
Boomboat Operator 35¢ cents per hour on the base rate will
Bridge Crane Op./ West 30¢ result in an approximate increase of 58
Bridge Crane Op./ East 25¢ cents for grade 11 and an approximate
Grade 11 — $5.17 increase of 73 cents for grade 21
Vertical Resaw Operator 39c (Headrig Sawyers). thus providing for
No. 2 Set-up Man 33c an “automatic” rate revision of 23
Heavy Eqpmt. Operator 38¢ cents for categories in grade 21.
Fi A job evaluation plan based
Grade 13 — $5.39 upon proper percentage grade in-
Planer Grader 47¢ crements will continue to maintain
Kiln Chargehand 44c proper monetary relationships bet-

ween evaluated categories.

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REVISIONS IN LOGGING ©
WON AT NAKUSP, REVELSTOKE

IWA Regional 1st Vice-President Wyman Trineer reports that logging
revisions have been concluded for the Celgar operations at Nakusp and Revel-
stoke.

Upward revisions were won for 62 of the 73 categories listed. The cost impact
of the revisions to the Company is estimated to total 22 cents an hour across the
piece.

Approximately 142 members of Locals 1-405 and 1-417 will receive the upward
revisions.

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